Amplitude modes in three-dimensional spin dimers away from quantum critical point
Abstract
Magnetic excitations of long-range ordered localized spin systems are generally well described by the linear spin-wave theory which accounts for phase fluctuations of the order parameter. In contrast, quasiparticles associated with amplitude fluctuations are only observed in a few quantum antiferromagnets close to a quantum critical point (QCP), where the ordered moment is suppressed significantly from its fully saturated value. Via inelastic neutron scattering measurements and extended spin-wave calculations, we present the observation and explanation of amplitude modes in the magnetic excitation spectra of three-dimensional S = 3/2 spin dimers Cr2TeO6 and Cr2WO6, which nevertheless are away from the QCP with the ordered moment reduced by only ~24%. We show that the large spin of Cr3+ and narrow bandwidth of the amplitude modes render their detection even in polycrystalline samples. This paper suggests that amplitude modes are not the privilege of ordered spin systems in the vicinity of a QCP, but may be common excitation modes that can survive even away from the QCP, paving a way to search for and understand the physics of amplitude fluctuations in antiferromagnets beyond the quantum spin limit (S=1/2).
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF); JSPS KAKENHI
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1574550
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- OSTI ID: 1666022
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- AC05-00OR22725; 17K05516; DMR-1350002; DMR-1608752
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- Published Article
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- Physical Review Research
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- Journal Name: Physical Review Research Journal Volume: 1 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2643-1564
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- American Physical Society (APS)
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- United States
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- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Magnetism; spin dynamics; magnetic systems; inelastic neutron scattering
Citation Formats
Zhu, M., Matsumoto, M., Stone, M. B., Dun, Z. L., Zhou, H. D., Hong, T., Zou, T., Mahanti, S. D., and Ke, X. Amplitude modes in three-dimensional spin dimers away from quantum critical point. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.033111.
Zhu, M., Matsumoto, M., Stone, M. B., Dun, Z. L., Zhou, H. D., Hong, T., Zou, T., Mahanti, S. D., & Ke, X. Amplitude modes in three-dimensional spin dimers away from quantum critical point. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.033111
Zhu, M., Matsumoto, M., Stone, M. B., Dun, Z. L., Zhou, H. D., Hong, T., Zou, T., Mahanti, S. D., and Ke, X. Tue .
"Amplitude modes in three-dimensional spin dimers away from quantum critical point". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.033111.
@article{osti_1574550,
title = {Amplitude modes in three-dimensional spin dimers away from quantum critical point},
author = {Zhu, M. and Matsumoto, M. and Stone, M. B. and Dun, Z. L. and Zhou, H. D. and Hong, T. and Zou, T. and Mahanti, S. D. and Ke, X.},
abstractNote = {Magnetic excitations of long-range ordered localized spin systems are generally well described by the linear spin-wave theory which accounts for phase fluctuations of the order parameter. In contrast, quasiparticles associated with amplitude fluctuations are only observed in a few quantum antiferromagnets close to a quantum critical point (QCP), where the ordered moment is suppressed significantly from its fully saturated value. Via inelastic neutron scattering measurements and extended spin-wave calculations, we present the observation and explanation of amplitude modes in the magnetic excitation spectra of three-dimensional S = 3/2 spin dimers Cr2TeO6 and Cr2WO6, which nevertheless are away from the QCP with the ordered moment reduced by only ~24%. We show that the large spin of Cr3+ and narrow bandwidth of the amplitude modes render their detection even in polycrystalline samples. This paper suggests that amplitude modes are not the privilege of ordered spin systems in the vicinity of a QCP, but may be common excitation modes that can survive even away from the QCP, paving a way to search for and understand the physics of amplitude fluctuations in antiferromagnets beyond the quantum spin limit (S=1/2).},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.033111},
journal = {Physical Review Research},
number = 3,
volume = 1,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {11}
}
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.033111
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